“The leader of the 8200 system, (Brigadier General) Yossi Sariel, has actually notified his leaders and subordinates of his intent to end his position,” the Israeli army stated in a declaration
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Demonstrators in Israel’s Tel Aviv, requiring action to protect the release of Israeli captives cooped because the Oct 7 attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants. AFP
The Israeli army stated on Thursday that the head of an elite intelligence system will resign over the failure to avoid Hamas’s October 7 attack.
“The leader of the 8200 system, (Brigadier General) Yossi Sariel, has actually notified his leaders and subordinates of his intent to end his position,” the army stated in a declaration.
“The officer will conclude his function in the future.”
The distinguished and deceptive Unit 8200 supervises of decoding and evaluating intercepts and other signals intelligence.
In the wake of October 7, Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate was tossed into a crisis that caused its leader, Major General Aharon Haliva, revealing his resignation in April 2024.
The army stated then that Haliva had actually asked to be alleviated of his tasks for the directorate’s failure to hinder the October 7 attack.
Israeli media on Thursday transmitted a copy of Sariel’s resignation letter in which he requested for “forgiveness” for “not satisfying the objective we were turned over with” on October 7.
In June, public broadcaster Kan divulged the presence of an intelligence quick ready